T-Mobile, Sprint Update FCC on Proposed Transaction
Mark McDiarmid, T-Mobile senior vice president-radio network engineering and development, and Ankur Kapoor, T-Mobile vice president-network technology, met with members of the FCC team overviewing their proposed deal. “Applicants discussed the network model and documentation previously provided to the Commission”…
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in response to an Aug. 15 information request, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-197. “Applicants showed how the network model is utilized to determine if there may be network congestion for the LTE and 5G networks for standalone T-Mobile, standalone Sprint, and New T-Mobile.” The companies demonstrated “(1) how the model determined the available capacity at a sector level for the 5G network, (2) how 5G traffic is redistributed from a non-5G site to neighboring 5G sites ... (3) how the 5G user throughput in a given sector is calculated and applied in the engineering model, and (4) how incremental solutions are applied to remedy congestion (both for LTE and 5G).”